Jocelyn Bell Burnell


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Jocelyn Bell Burnell is a British astronomer who was born in 1943. She discovered pulsars in 1967. Pulsars are stars that send out radio waves at even intervals of time, for example, one every second. Her advisor, Tony Hewitt, received the Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery.

Jocelyn Bell Burnell


A photo of Jocelyn Bell Burnell
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The Open University
Jocelyn Bell Burnell is a British astronomer who was born in 1943. She discovered pulsars - stars which emit periodic radio waves - in 1967. Burnell was a graduate student at Cambridge University when she discovered pulsars. Her professor, Antony Hewish, received the Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery.

Jocelyn Bell Burnell


A photo of Jocelyn Bell Burnell
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The Open University
Jocelyn Bell is a British astronomer who was born in 1943. She discovered pulsars in 1967. Burnell was a graduate student at Cambridge University when she discovered pulsars. Her advisor, Tony Hewish, received the Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery.


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